Day: August 15, 2019

Judge bars Georgia from using current voting technology in 2020 – CNET

The state is in the midst of getting new voting machines and other tech. …read more Source:: CNet


Netflix’s To All The Boys sequel gets its release date – CNET

A third film is already in production. …read more Source:: CNet


Netflix’s Biggest Bingers Get Hit With Higher Internet Costs

An anonymous reader shares a report: James Wright had never worried about staying under his data cap. Then he bought a 4K TV set and started binge-watching Netflix in ultra-high definition. The picture quality was impressive, but it gobbled up so much bandwidth that his internet service provider, Comcast, warned that he had exceeded his…


20+ Data Breaches Reported Per Day in First Half of 2019

But incidents involving SSNs, addresses, birth dates were smaller than in previous years. …read more Source:: DarkReading


‘Hey Google, remind Greg the locks have been changed, and he should find a new place to live. Maybe ask his mistress?’

Google Assistant can now send reminders to friends and family – this won’t end well Having failed to grasp the lesson of Microsoft’s annoying animated Office assistant, Clippy – humans hate being hectored by software – Google has empowered its Assistant software to remind people to do things at the behest of another.… …read more…


A New Way To Help Students Turn in Their Best Work

Google announces in a blog post: Today’s students face a tricky challenge: In an age when they can explore every idea imaginable on the internet, how do they balance outside inspiration with authenticity in their own work? Students have to learn to navigate the line between other people’s ideas and their own, and how and…


NSA Researchers Talk Development, Release of Ghidra SRE Tool

NSA researchers took the Black Hat stage to share details of how they developed and released the software reverse-engineering framework. …read more Source:: DarkReading


Nvidia beats Q2 expectations, achieves record automotive sales

Revenue and earnings were down year-over-year, but Nvidia achieved sequential growth across platforms with especially strong growth in Automotive. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Japanese Researchers Build Robotic Tail To Keep Elderly Upright

Millions of years after the ancestors of humans evolved to lose their tails, a research team at Japan’s Keio University have built a robotic one they say could help unsteady elderly people keep their balance. From a report: Dubbed Arque, the grey one-meter device mimics tails such as those of cheetahs and other animals used…


Ohio state’s top legal eagle just made it harder for the FBI, ICE, cops to snoop around its DMV DB for people’s faces

Feds, officers match thousands of license plates to driver IDs The Attorney General of Ohio has banned cops and the Feds from accessing the US state’s database of drivers’ license plates and faces until the officers and g-men receive adequate privacy compliance training.… …read more Source:: TheRegister